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Aside from physical addiction, I find the mental side of addiction even harder to deal with. I tend to do X when Y and so each time I do Y I suddenly have an urge for X.

You’d have to have a look and see if there’s anything that triggers your desire to see if it’s the same for you and then try to change the routines a bit. The biggest help will be to just not have any in the house for a while. That will stop temptation and can help break the association of having X when doing Y after a while.

I’d also suggest looking up some advice online about tolerance breaks as well, as there are various tips that ought help you. Not everyone is the same, so you’ll have to shop around.

Plus a t-break will reset your sensitivity to THC which may also help reduce your intake post break.

Good luck



I certainly find with cannabis that the mental struggle is far more significant than any physical dependency, to the extent that it even exists (and I can distinguish it from my overall mental state). Indeed I've dropped much more chemically addictive substances with greater ease.

"Tolerance break" is not a term I've come across before, but it's a great description of at least part of what I'm after. I have taken similar breaks before, and currently have none around and no plans for getting more. I'm not dead set on quitting weed entirely, I don't see it as intrinsically bad, I just have found that if I have it in the house I'm liable to consume it by increasing degrees until I'm back to being high almost all the time. My biggest trigger is simply being awake and looking forward to another fairly predictable day. Perhaps I should be trying to inject more unpredictability into my daily routine? This goes against everything I've fought for in establishing a halfway comfortable middle-class existence, but perhaps it deserves investigation.

Thank you!




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